UK Padel Market: 889 Clubs, 3,064 Courts

There are 3,064 padel courts at 889 active clubs across the UK (2,805 courts at 783 clubs anyone can book, and 259 at 106 members-only clubs), counted from live booking-platform data and refreshed daily. The number rises every month as new venues open — see our interactive map for the live list.

The UK has roughly 4.4 padel courts per 100,000 people — about one court for every 23,000 residents. Supply is very unevenly spread: provision in the best-served local authorities runs many times the national rate, while dozens of authorities still have no courts at all. See the local authority breakdown (Investor plan) for the full picture.

The UK added an estimated 1,192 padel courts in the last 12 months — growth of +64%, a compound annual growth rate of 94% over three years. Court counts before 2023 are anchored to LTA figures, so the early years are a different basis to our own roster — see the methodology.

UK padel courts run at 55% average occupancy over the last 90 days, measured from real booked slots against each club's opening hours and court count. Occupancy varies dramatically by location, opening hours, court mix (indoor vs outdoor), and pricing strategy. Premium operators often run lower utilisation in exchange for higher revenue per available court hour (RevPAH).

The average tracked club takes approximately £36,194/month in court-hire gross booking value. At the UK average of £9,838 per court, a four-court club books around £39,400/month, with a wide spread between busy and quiet sites. Across the clubs Playskan measures it comes to roughly £25M/month, or £28M with an estimate for the clubs we can't measure (the figure in the tiles above).

The UK average is £34/hour per court, observed across live booking schedules. Prices vary widely by location — Greenwich averages £51/hour while Bremen averages £23/hour. Pricing also flexes by day of week, time of day, and court type (indoor courts command a premium).

An uncovered padel court costs £67,000–£74,000 per court to build — £71,000 for a single court, falling to £268,000 for four. Adding a canopy roughly doubles it, to £122,000–£166,000 per court. These are delivered project costs published by the LTA (2025) and exclude VAT, professional fees, land and planning. Full build-cost tables, running costs and what a court actually earns are on how much a padel court costs.

Building the UK's 3,064 padel courts would cost an estimated £189M–£264M using the LTA's 2025 construction costs, excluding VAT. Indoor courts are the largest group but the cheapest per court, because most are in converted warehouses rather than new buildings. The figure leaves out land, fees, clubhouses and conversion works, so total investment is higher. See the breakdown by court type.

Playskan's Planning Applications tracker monitors every UK padel court submission, approval rate, top-performing local authorities, and the agents winning the most consents. It's the closest thing to a live deal-flow view of the asset class.

Every metric is computed from live booking-platform data (Playtomic, MATCHi, Padel Mates, etc.), refreshed daily. We model occupancy from real slot bookings against each club's opening hours and court count, and revenue from observed pricing. Full methodology is documented on the methodology page.

Padel club operators benchmark their pricing and occupancy against comparable venues. Property owners and developers evaluate sites before committing capital. Institutional investors and family offices track market saturation, deal flow, and operator performance. See operator-level benchmarks or plan options to get started.